Chapter 5

Even though I was knowledgeable, I couldn't help but be surprised when I saw Song Suqing and her armored ship.

I heard that Japan's shipbuilding technology had surpassed China. Seeing this fast, stable and strong iron-clad ship, I was still mixed in my heart. No wonder the Japanese pirates could have the upper hand in the battle with the Ming navy. However, what surprised me even more was that the leader of the Japanese tribute envoy was actually a woman.

She is at least in her thirties this year! Song Suqing has been famous for more than ten years, but she looks like a young woman in her twenties. Her long-term life at sea does not seem to damage her face. Her exposed skin is flawless, delicate and tender, delicate and delicate.

No wonder Ryan favored her. It turned out that the eunuch also liked beauty! I thought to myself

Mr. Shen is a distinguished guest, how dare I not treat each other with my true face! Song Suqing seemed to see my confusion, smiled and said that she spoke fluent official language. If she changed into Han people's clothes, she would be like a Han girl.

Miss Song was too polite. Chen Yi was very casual and made the tea by himself: We can't drink Japanese tea, he explained

I couldn't help but look at her when I heard this. Song was no longer a virgin, but just Chen Yi's words, Miss Song, were definitely not screaming casually. It seems that the customs of the Japanese are still very different from those of Middle-earth. Perhaps her body is also a powerful tool to maintain her leadership position!

In fact, the transaction was very simple. More than 5,000 high-quality sea beads were filled with a full bucket. Chen Yi just heard Song Suqing report a number, and he didn't check it at all, so he handed over the silver notes of the 200,000 taels of Datong Money House to her. Obviously, the two parties had established a good trust relationship. The so-called "let me over the formation" was just Chen Yi's excuse.

However, Song Suqing looked at the sandal bead necklace between Yulong's neck with interest: Such a large Nanyang sandal bead is extremely rare in the middle ground. She looked at me and said: Just like Mr. Shen, she was born in a wealthy family!

When I agreed to Chen Yi, I only made one request, which was to conceal my identity. At this time, Master Shen just smiled and said: Miss Song has such a good eye. Master Li is a rich man, and he is very rich, but he refuses to tell her my origin.

But I followed Song Suqing's words and asked: Miss Song can recognize this as a Tanzhu at a glance. It seems that she is a big expert in the jewelry industry! I want to ask for some advice.

Experts dare not behave, but there is no woman who doesn't love jewelry? I just saw it a lot. As she said that, she stretched out a plain wrist from her wide sleeves, and the white wrist was wearing an ivory sandal bead bracelet, but the beads were smaller than Yulong's.

The real jewelry dealer is the Nanyang diamond black pearl used by the jewelry store in the south of the Yangtze River. The Japanese sea pearl was almost monopolized by the Zongshi. It was just a coincidence that I only made it with Mr. Shen twice.

She twisted up a round, pure sea bead, and then said: In fact, a good sea bead is only 40 or 50 taels of silver, but when she arrived at the hands of Bao Daxiang, Jiyuezhai, Jiguzhai and other big jewelry stores, she would have a little decoration and inlay, and she would probably cost 1 or 200 taels of silver. The money was earned by the jewelry store.

The Japanese cannot do business in the Central Plains. Chen Yi explained

Although there has been a tendency to process finished products and then sell them recently, Chinese jewelry stores have been resisting them. Even the sect can't sell those finished jewelry products. At this point, the Chinese are tight-knitted. Song Suqing added

You guys can't make all your money! I thought to myself, but a smile appeared on my face and said: Money is what everyone makes! The Chinese didn't say that they made the silk kimono and sold it to you! So everyone laughed

Chen Yi took the opportunity to say that Mr. Li had a friend who runs a jewelry business and was missing a big player. The third master was idle on the boat, so what if he wanted to go to the Central Plains to see it?

Song Suqing only thought for a moment and then agreed happily, but the monthly salary she called out was really shocked by me, but this made me curious about the skills of the third master. If he was really worth so much money, for Baoting, I would invite him back to Bao Daxiang if I said anything.

Following Song Suqing's call, she walked into the luxury cabin was a boy of sixteen or seventeen years old. No, she should be a girl. Although her hair was cut shorter than me, her eyes were also a boy-like wild light, but she was indeed a girl, and she was still a very outstanding one.

No wonder Chen Yi spoke a little melancholy when he mentioned her. He was used to seeing the beauty of Jiangnan woman, he should have a special feeling for this third master! It’s just like Sun Miao and Su Jin. The third master made another name on his unconquering woman’s list.

But at a young age, she is a famous sword-making master among ronin? Can her thin arm swing the heavy hammer?

Barnacle, are you willing to go to the Central Plains? Song Suqing seemed to have extraordinary respect for this subordinate, but the third master's eyes fell on the dragon-slashing blade on my waist.

She straightforwardly asked me for the Dragon Slaying Blade, and gently pressed the machine spring. With a light sound, the Dragon Slaying Blade suddenly popped out half a foot. The third mage's eyes lit up, touched the fine patterns on the blade, and blurted out: Good knife!

The sword stem is five inches, the sword body is two feet five, the sword weighs seven pounds and three ounces, and the sheath weighs eight ounces and one sword edge each. This is called a sword knife. I chanted the formula of the sword knife casually.

The third master looked at me up and down, frowned and said in confusion: Are you a sword-casting master?

I should have asked the girl this? I smiled and said, although her official words were much worse than Song Suqing, but they had the soft smell of Jiangnan water town, which was very different from her boy's dress. The exotic style sounded so touching.

Although I am not a sword-casting master, I will introduce you to the master who casts this sword to you, in fact, the culture of Central Plains is profound. If a girl can live for a long time, she will definitely have some insights and take your sword-casting technique to the next level

The third mage suddenly opened his eyes wide and said curiously: Hey, how do you know that my sword-casting technique has encountered a bottleneck?

This is what Middle Earth calls "Kung Fu outside of poetry" Ah! The girl recently abandoned casting swords and practiced the method of jewellery making. I think she wanted to seek inspiration from other ways, in order to make her sword-casting technique go further, and the girl's idea is absolutely wrong, but the scope of her practice is really narrow!

...You seem to be very knowledgeable. Can I be your student? After a moment, she said straightforwardly

Master Ling, your sword is so sharp!

My disciple, the girl named Three Master Yuan Barnacle, holding Yuling's Chunshui sword, can't let go: Such a thin sword body is so strong and rigid. The Chinese sword-making skills are really strong! But who did Master Tie's broken sword casting? Did he know that the sword is the life of a swordsman, how could he be so vague?

I broke up with Shen Yi in Ningbo, just as he said it was an excuse to ask me to put him in a squad. I think the Shen family would never let him, the eldest young master, walk in the world alone with dozens of kilograms of jewelry. There must be a large number of people in Ningbo to pick him up.

Although Bao Daxiang urgently needs this batch of high-quality sea beads that have not yet been processed, I would rather miss this great opportunity. After all, Bao Daxiang has experienced a smuggling lawsuit, and such a large number of sea beads may not be a blessing to it.

Sun Su and Tie Pingsheng, who were waiting in the fishing village by the sea, were not surprised by the addition of a barnacle. They were just a little curious when they heard her call me a teacher. However, she bluntly deposed Tie Pingsheng's sword to be worthless, which made me spend 60 taels of silver in Ningbo to re-equip Tie Pingsheng with a good steel sword to block her mouth.

If Tie Pingsheng had a complex of Madam Yu in his heart, he would have been a good subordinate. He was very rigid and rigid, but because of this, every command I ordered was executed without any fault.

Perhaps it was a flawless person who had burned all his enthusiasm and turned a blind eye to a beautiful woman like Sun Su. However, Yuan Barnacle made him laugh from time to time, although she kept scolding him.

Later I learned that Tie Pingsheng's wife died early, and a girl left behind him was also killed in a martial arts fight. If she was still alive, it would be that Yuan Barnacle was so big.

Ningbo was used to being in Sun Miao's way, and someone in the inn recognized her, causing a small commotion, but Ningbo did not cause any fluctuations in Su Jin's emotions. In the flawless indirect attack, she also admitted that she had been here to relax. Calculate the days, it should be before she went to Songjiang to wait for delivery.

I secretly used the power of the government to check the route date she said, and it was very consistent. Moreover, the information reported showed that she was indeed alone, of course, she was indeed alone.

Who is the man who made Su Jin pregnant? It’s time for the fifth master’s wife to investigate and find some results!

However, the data on the Ningbo semi-colon of the Eagle Claws under the Eagle Claw Sect was very detailed. After all, it was a major case of twenty-seven people dead. The general inspector of Ningbo Inspection Department was still scared when he mentioned this matter, because those people died so miserable.

Listening to Lao Guan’s description, I was stunned. Why was the technique quite similar to the technique used by the Twelve Links in the Chunshui Sword Sect? But Sui Li had already clearly stated that Kuang Tian did not die at the hands of the Twelve Links, but at the same time, the Eagle Claw Sect, which had escort agencies in Jiangnan and Jiangbei, was wiped out. From the perspective of dispatching, the Twelve Links were also quite difficult.

I wanted to go to the escort agency to check the scene, but Lao Guan said that the house had been sold by Sima Changkong, the new leader of the Eagle Claw Gate, to pay mercy to those orphans and widows. Then the house was demolished, and a new brothel called Xiaoxiang Pavilion was set up on the original site. The scene was no longer visible.

Finally, he sighed: Grandma, it’s also a weird person. So many people died in this place, but the business of Xiaoxiang Pavilion is still very popular!

I said oh, this is very different from the situation at Danyang Hua Butterfly's house. I was about to leave, but I felt unforgettable and asked: The boss of Xiaoxiang Pavilion is quite courageous. Lao Guan, do you know who he is?

I know that the boss was originally a famous local rogue named Zhou Furong, but he was not the one who paid the money. Once he got drunk by me, he gave it to the bottom. The real boss behind the scenes is from the north, with the surname Song. It is said that the business is very big. He has everything in brothels, casinos, grain shops, cloth shops, and jewelry stores!

The surname of Song? Jewelry Xing? Song Tingzhi!? I was shocked: I really searched for it without any effort.

At that moment, my intuition was almost certain that the backstage boss of Xiaoxiang Pavilion was Song Tingzhi, the boss of Jiyuezhai.

Although I have paid close attention to him for Baoting, there are still very few data about him. If the backend boss of Xiaoxiang Pavilion is really Song, he is not just a businessman. Brothels and casinos are all close to the world. Who will be behind him?

Eagle Claw Gate? Obviously not, although Xiaoxiang Pavilion was built on the site of Eagle Claw Gate, Eagle Claw Gate does not have such strong strength to make such a large-scale investment. If he was the backer of Eagle Claw Gate, it might be natural!

I suddenly remembered the intriguing words of Li Kuanren before I married Wuxia. The shadow of the Dajiang League gradually emerged behind Song Tingzhi.

Is the Dajiang League a fake Song Tingzhi to accumulate funds for the fight for hegemony? I was shocked by my own imagination: Behind the name of the Wanjia Buddha in Jiangnan, there is a terrible thing to hide dirt and dirt!

I also thought that Qi Xiaotian's performance at the opening ceremony of the Suzhou Branch of Jiyuezhai was a performance with excellent singing and writing, and I couldn't help but feel a chill afterwards.

I immediately asked Lao Guan to transfer to various docks, stations, and inns to all the road registration records from the month before the Eagle Claw Gate's extermination to the present. After looking through the property for a whole afternoon, I found that Song Tingzhi's name appeared in the registration book many times before and after the change of ownership and during the construction of Xiaoxiang Pavilion, and Jiyuezhai did not have a sub-digit number in Ningbo.

Close those thick registration books, I can already be sure of another identity of Song Tingzhi｜｜The real owner of Xiaoxiang Pavilion

Should I suddenly interrogate Zhou Furong?

I shook my head and suddenly tried Zhou Furong and had no reason to alert the snake. After I put wine in the evening, I thanked Lao Guan and his brothers. I rushed to Yuyao overnight and stayed at my teacher Yangminggong for only one night. I embarked on the journey to Suzhou with inexplicable excitement and fear.